These are the third and final choices for book covers to I’ve Never Lived Here.

The only change from the last version is the addition of “a novel,” which has been added to all the cover choices.  I’m still very fond of the wonderful lettering.

Then there’s the one with the boy, where again the only change is the addition of “a novel,” in your choice of places.

Here’s the bike again, one with a single color title and one with the multi-color title.  And one with no color on the bike.

Here is the second set of book covers.  Any likes or dislikes?

Here, the designer tried making the bike larger.  As in the old cover of the boy and the bike, the imperfect watercolors represent the imperfect lives of the characters.

Some people felt they didn’t know where to look with the cover that had the boy and the bike.  So here’s one with just the boy, arriving or leaving.

Some folks didn’t like the small bike on the cover.  You’ve seen the cover with the larger bike.  Now this one has no bike, but just the beautiful lettering.

And here we have a completely different direction.

Here are three choices for the cover of I’ve Never Lived Here.  Please let me know which you like.

The bicycle for Alex represents transportation, travel, adventure, escape, and freedom.

For the second one, the watercolors are imperfect like the characters in the story. Despite this, they still evoke a sense of beauty. The orientation of imagery to title reflects the tension of being not quite settled, in the space in between.

In the third one, the sneakers tossed over the telephone wire reflects youth and harmless rebellion. Sneakers also represent Alex’s coming-of-age struggle to feel comfortable in his own skin — walking in his own shoes. Learning to stand in who he is.

While I like this one, Alex doesn’t spend enough time in New York City for the skyline to fit.  It could, of course, be changed to a scene that is more suburban/semi-rural.